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I don’t NEED a dragon that can shoot saxophones out of its face, but I do want one now

No Tim, I *do* need a dragon that shoots saxophones out of it's face.

Maybe YOU don't need a saxaphone dragon. I've never needed anything more!

I agree with the inheritance cycle being derivative, but Saphira's humanness is a specific plot point. As most of the time they don't meet any other dragons, and as far as they know she's the only remaining female. The dragons bonded to humans who live among humans would become more like those humans. Her actions in front of older or wilder dragons are difficult because of this. Eragon also becomes slightly more draconic, although that is less well explored

I can’t believe you didn’t call them Prodragonists and Andragonists. Also, i can’t believe you only skimmed over wings of fire during the Dragons as Protagonists section.

I actually would argue that Toothless doesn't belong in the beast category. He clearly understands everything that Hiccup says and is able to respond with it. The examples you used of Hiccup Dragon-Splaining... if you hit mute, you would still clearly understand what Toothless was doing by his actions and facial expressions. A mute character does not mean they can't communicate. If anything, you could say that Toothless may be smarter because he understands Hiccup's language, but Hiccup can't understand dragon speak. And it's not like a dog remembering a few previously taught commands. They are actually communicating. Look at the begining of the second movie after Toothless saves Hiccup from crashing into the rocks. Hiccup slyly is saying that Toothless needs to work on his turns. Toothless side-eyes him and throws a stone at him. That was a nuanced conversation, not a command. And Toothless understood that.

"Dragons aren't human" Me, writing a comic with dragon shapeshifters: *chuckles nervously*

I think you kinda missed the point of Saphira humanness. She becames more and more like a human because of her bond with a human, just as Eragon becomes less and less human-like as the series progresses. In the forth book, they have a brief talk with a wild dragon, and he is much different. He doesnt have language, and he spends most of his time immerse in a state of meditation. (I forgot his name) Ps: keep up with the good work!

Have you ever read fablehaven? The dragons in that are amazing. “Dragons see us the same way we see mice, we aren’t very tasty and they’ll kill us just to keep the area tidy.”

Paolini specifically stated in eldest that the longer eragon and saphira are together the more eragon will take on her more ancient nature and saphira will become more human as time goes on as they eventually become one mind(in a sense of how they act not actually becoming one mind) so saphiras more human actions later in the last to books are explained by their empathy link growing

Paolini: *Writes a book with a major plot-point being that a dragon doesn't feel connected to her ancestors because she feels too human. She's only ever been around humans(because they're nearly extinct) so has disproportionate human characteristics than any other dragon in the story's universe* Tim: I don't like it, she's too human feeling. Paolini: Am I a joke to you?

I'm so glad you mentioned Wings of Fire, it's possibly my favorite depiction of Dragons in fiction

Let me pose a question in regard to Saphira and her lack of dragon-ness; consider, for a second, that dragons in the inheritance cycle are immensely intelligent, cultural creatures, which they are. By anthropological standards, the dragons absolutely have their own culture separate from that of elves and humans, and we discover more of this in the later books when the characters encounter an eldunari of one of the wild dragons, and this culture of theirs is thoroughly different than the other humanoid cultures. Let's compare this to existing human cultures so that we have a frame of reference; Native American cultures, for example, are vastly alien in comparison to many western European cultures. Now consider this; would a child born to two Cherokee parents (I'm using a singular tribe, just for specificity), yet raised from infancy to adulthood by Spaniards in Spain, having little to no exposure to his or her "original" culture know much, if anything about Cherokee language, practices, or idioms? No, the child wouldn't. So would a dragon, raised for a majority of her life by humans, having only met another of her kind recently and for a brief time, know much of her "native" culture? Most likely, no, which is why Saphira is more likely to use human idioms, and this goes doubly so when you take into account her empathy link with Eragon. She has literally been sharing thoughts with a human since birth-- I mean, hatching. Therefor, I say Paolini is absolutely justified in making her thoughts and actions appear human, since, culturally speaking, she is absolutely human. Notice also that Glaedr acts far less human than Saphira, and we can attribute this to his time spent with other dragons when their culture was still preserved, a luxury Saphira never had. Glaedr thinks a lot more in images and sensory impressions, rather than words, and the wild dragon they met in book 4 doesn't use words at all. Saphira isn't so much a product of her blood, so much that she's a product of her environment, which happens to be all dirty, stupid humans all the time. This would probably even be different had Eragon been an elf, and Saphira raised on the outskirts of their domain. Since culture is defined as learned behavior that persists over generations, it makes sense that Saphira would act more human than the rest of her kind.

If I remember correctly, Eragon discussed with Saphira how her behaviour was interpreted by humans and how it made her seem more monsterous. I'm not too sure about this but there were civilians that found Saphira to be scary and dumb due to her dragon like reactions and behaviour. I believe they were both educated on more acceptable ways to react and Saphira was taught humans customs in respect so she would not offend anyone and so she knew how she could shoe her respect. I haven't read the series for a while tho

Hello Future Me: "They kill children" Me: "children plural? They killed ONE child, talk about prejudice"

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How could you get bored of dragons? They're so friggin cool

How would it work if dragons were perceived as just another race like Elves, humans or dwarves by the people in a world

I pretty distinctly remember in the Inheritence books that it stated a dragon taking on more human mental traits over time due to the link with their Rider just as the Rider took on the long lives of a dragon as part of that bond. Two becoming one. Glaedr and Umaroth both pretty blatantly alluded to that point on various occasions.

Your critique of word choice with Saphira intrigues me, but I'm not quite convinced it's Paolini growing lazy or apathetic. Given the attention to detail he initially showed, I could see this drift towards more human language being a result of her spending most of her time socializing or interacting with humans. There are very few dragon riders in her lifetime, so I could see her being more "human" than most dragons on average simply due to a lack of dragons to interact with and either learn dragon behavior and idioms from, or even simply keep them in use. It makes sense to me that, with few (if any) friendly dragons available for her to interact with at any given time, her mannerisms would slowly drift more towards human customs and conventions--as much as they can, at least, given her being a death-lizard.

I love how we can tell what toothless is thinking without him even saying a word.

How about a dragon society with the 3 dragon stereotypes or combinations can exist in their life cycles.

Spoilers for Wings of Fire, up till book 9 at least. Well Wings of Fire could have been used more for examples of dragon protagonists and showing differences between the dragon culture and our own human culture :The role of Queens as leaders of their race, with there never being a King as leader; The development of Aquatic as a language used by Seawings; The fact that dragonets become soldiers as soon as they've grown to a certain extent, and will be capable of fighting a full-grown dragon. It also has examples of dragons as antagonists: The role Queen Scarlet plays as an antagonist for much of the books and is manipulative in everything she does, as well as Morrowseer and the Nightwings; The legend of Darkstalker and the power he holds as an age-old animus dragon; The role of Blister and Burn in the first prophecy books and how they threaten the dragonet prophecy before the dragonets are even born. Wings of Fire has a lot of potential examples for writing Western Thinkers, even in how each dragon varies (Nightwing, Skywing, Mudwing, Seawing, Sandwing, Rainwing and Animus dragons).

around 10:55, you talk about how hard it is to have a novel with no or very little dialogue. One book I can think of that gets by with very little dialogue is White Fang, a book about a wolf dog in Alaska around the time of the gold rush. It's brilliant, and large stretches of the book have no humans and are just the actions of animals without any dialogue.

um, hey Tim do you have any tips on how to mix magic and technology into a story?

Most intresting dragons that iv come across in books (and loved) is the ones from the 'The Rain Wild Chronicles' by Robin Hobb. Dragons who hatch out first as serpants and live inthe sea before going through a metamorphosis to become winged dragons. Dragons that spit acid/venom not fire, a trait from their serpant part of the life cycle. intresting to me at least. And thats not going into the 'live' ships made from the 'wood' of serpant cocoons that are aware

Thank you. I have a dragon protagonist in my book that I'm writing, and this'll help a lot with writing him.

There were so many opportunities to put in wings of fire

I really like the rhythm of speak on Tolkien's dragons as well, it gives them a certain charm. When I write dragons I try to give the such fluidity as well. “ Such is his ignorance that remains inert in the face of the suffering of his people, puppet and silent, without his own voice. Stuck in the lines of the superb nobility that usurps the right to live of the less fortunate. So please enlighten me, with what virtue you dare to enter my territory and address me?’’ The silence in the forest was deafening, I could no longer hear the birds singing or the humming of cicadas, everything was stopped in time where not even the wind dared to break its charm, whenever the being in front of me spoke the whole forest was silent and listened. The words eluded me and my knees struggled to stay upright, the sweat on my hand made the rings I wore slippery and my eyes were no longer able to hold his gaze, lowering my head to watch one of his supporting legs on a rock, it cracked before its weight moaning every time it re-positioned its claws. I took a deep breath, the air burning in my throat and opened my mouth, but no words formed and for a few seconds I repeated the movement, like a fish out of water, during the act the dragon remained silent watching with curiosity my lack of words. “ From what I observe, he is not even able to formulate a simple sentence. Becoming appalled by a simple question and has the courage to call himself king. It is nothing but a scoundrel, so much of your bravado in coming to the home of another to command him. I must advise, you do not exercise any command here, especially on me. I am detached from any human conflict or any other being, I am not interested in your culture, your wars, your beliefs and alliances. If you dare to come to my home to try to subdue me, you will not be the first or even the last. Dating back even before the outbreak of your race, many others tried, though, without a triumphant finish.’’

Inheritance Cycle: Saphira and other dragons/eldunari that had bonded with a rider could articulate words and expressions like people because from the moment they left the egg THEY WERE IMPRINTED ON "HUMAN" THOUGHT PATTERNS. Shockingly enough their psyche were affected by this. When Eragon "speaks" to the eldunari of wild/unbonded dragons, he had a great deal of difficulty understanding their thoughts because they had no basis of language he could relate to other than the impressions of physical sensations. The series had flaws like any other series does, but don't leave out contradictions because their inconvenient to your point. Love the video, cant wait for more! Give Naomi Novick's books a try, the Temeraire series specifically.

"There are dozens of you" *as names scroll up at one per frame for about a minute* That's 60 x 24 names (about) which means there are about 2880 names. That's 120 dozens, Tim.

If I did have a dragon that breaths saxophones Made my day

The reason why Saphira isn’t as mystical/acts more human is because she bound to Eragon. (who’s a human) Living ‘’within’’ society and without any of her wild kind around to guide and teach her the ways of the wild beasts she’s going to become more humanistic than a regular dragon. (Especially seeing as see has the intelligence) Same goes for the other dragons who where bound with riders. Seeing as we really don’t get to see a wild dragon in the Inheritance Cycle theres no way to compare them to the dragons we do see. Guess we’ll have to wait until the fifth book.

"You don't need dragons who can shoot saxophones out of their face" But what if I do?

Hey! Thank you for that video. I am myself a GM in a lot of RP PBF games and for a past few months I had some problems with my own-created species. Your video allowed me to realize that with time I've lost "beast" side of my characters for the sake of human side. And you - dear author - showed me again, that this is that one problem that I need to fix! Thank you!

Thanks for mentioning Eragon in the video, and great job on the video as a whole. I don't have very much interest in writing, but I still enjoy watching your videos!

Let's face it, HTTYD is used because it's awesome.

In the later books, my impression was the increasingly humanlike saphira was her learning how humans think after being bentally stuck to one for several years. The younger dragons in the later books support this idea as they also think as young Saphira did.

I love the Temeraire books. I think Naomi did a good job of writing talking dragons who stay consistent with their non-human nature, even as they understand how things work in human society.

Thanks for teaching us Tim now we can write our own draconic story's.

14:45 it amuses me more than is polite that a paragraph touting the importance of word choice has a scripting error (Drastically different characterisation...)

The Age of Fire by E E Knight has an interesting was of portraying western thinkers by having them be able to speak to humans but have vastly different ways for thinking both about themselves and the world around them

You've got some brass to talk about saxophone dragons. Even if the instrument is a woodwind. :-P

I LOVE ERAGON AND HTTYD!!! :DDDDDD P.S. I say the Eragon movie is barely in resemblance of the Eragon book

Such a detailed video. The research and time spent making it is really visible. Keep up the great content, Tim.

I randomly found you and I did not regret it. Currently, am in a writing project myself and both your videos on dragons helped me a lot and send me right now in a frenzy on overworking the ones in my project. Thank you for the good work.

You mentioned Guild Wars 2 AND Wings of Fire... My life is complete. Also, you pulled up the best book in the series that inspired my writing.

Your videos are always fun to watch thanks for all the hard work you do for us

I love your video! This actually really helped me with how I plan on incorporating Dragons into my D&D adventure 😁 but if I can be nitpicky, mind if I point out that Alduin doesn't have any control over time. The only association between him and time is that he is the first born of Akatosh and that the Ancient Nord heros cast him adrift through time using an Elderscroll. Other then that Alduin is actually an ordinary Dragon other then the fact that he can't actually be slain.

This was really helpful! I have a story about an immortal dragon that is arrogant, pompous and self absorbed because of his power. He sees not only mortal dragons but humans and all mortals and specks of dust. While he is not an antagonist he's more of a semi protagonist dipping in and out of the main character's journey as he pleases. The thing is he can speak and this was really helpful in that category, thank you so much, Tim! ❤️

To bring up the inheritance cycle, in relation to your criticism to it, I think part of the mental word choice becoming closer to how a human would say things, and think is because of their mental empathy link, as they spent more time together, they slowly became more and more alike, with their bodies and minds melding. This question still doesn't quite fix the complaint however, since Paolini still uses human descriptions for the actions of Saphira, it would have gona long way in holding the mysticism in the scene if they had described how she had moved to emulate a bow, the way she moved, and the way she interacted in a physical sense would have gone a long way to bringing some of that back. Another criticism which is related, is that the elvish characters, and the elvish dragon, still feel human, you see a pragmatism in places, where they don't want to kill but are willing to do it if they feel that leaving something alive will not change its fate, but increase its suffering as it dies slowly, but we don't really see them act, or move differently than humans in most other situations. They just feel like humans that are a bit better than magic than most, you don't feel how their experiences that shaped the race would have changed their actions much. And as such, the elven dragon feels very much like saphira, feels very human. I would have liked to see more differences between elves and humans, like we had seen with the dwarves before.

Though not a dragon per se, "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker (which is about Utahraptors and other prehistoric animals from that ecosystem) is, to me, the go-to book when looking for examples of engaging non-human perspectives.

When you finish with this series on writing dragons would you do a series on writing speech patterns, rhythms, and languages.

Thanks for making this 2 part video, you touch upon some many different different kinds and characters. It suprised me when you mention some less known series and it made me happy that they got some spotlight, though I can think of a few more, you didnt just talk about some of the most popular ones. Keep it up!

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Toothless looks really cute when hiccup bring him back from the power of the bewilderbeast

14:53 ya he did mention wings of fire one of my favorite book series

These have been so incredibly helpful! I've been struggling with making my dragon story unique. I can't wait for the On Writing book; I'll definitely be purchasing! I'd totally support you on Patreon too but I'm too young :') (no credit card yet). You're the best; all hail Mishka!

Love your videos Tim!!

You are doing the Nerd God's work.

Saphira having more human-like dialogue and actions as the story progresses is due to her spending more time around humans and being mentally linked to Eragon for a longer period of time. At a later point in the story, dragons that chose to remain isolated from elves and humans are discussed. They do not think in words and are much more animalistic. I cannot remember the exact wording, unfortunately. Your points are entirely valid and I agree with them, but I disagree that the example given fits said points completely. I do still love this video.

Fantastic content. Love your work.

In the third book in the Inheritance cycle Brisingr there is an entire chapter that shows that much of her humanness is do to Eragon's perspective translating her Dragonness

On the topic of how Paolini wrote dragons, I do want to address that there was a clear distinction between dragons raised by humans, such as Saphira and Thorn, who slowly acted less on impulse and more on human thought (which makes sense given the nature of their raising), and dragons who were either raised in the wild or in the traditional way of the dragon riders. The former were raised by a young human, and thus they way they acted is largely impacted by that fact. The older dragons communicate in non-verbal and vague ways, and the imagery used for them is much more mystical and non-human. If anything, I think the writing of Saphira as a more human-acting character only added to the depth of her characterization

I love your videos keep up the good work go crazy 🔥🔥

Thank you so much for crediting the artists!

Excellent work! Thank you for this content.

No Temeraire series? I'd love to see video on those.

I FUCKING LOVE DRAGON!!!! So, continue this little serie. The video is really a great job.

these are so indepth. You have really helped my create writing english grades thanks so much

Eragon and the Inheritance Cycle is one of my favorite books of all time. I read it so many times as a kid.

Just when I thought I was done getting saxaphoned

I feel like much of this video could apply more generally to just writing non-human characters in general. Just replace "Dragon" with "Alien" and boom you've gone from fantasy to sci-fi.

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I'm writing about dragons, in fact, right now, and am so happy you posted part 2 so quickly. However, I don't see on a quick scroll through a ten minute Gandalf saxophone hilarity... but I see in the comments about a saxophone dragon. I can't wait to learn all about the saxophone dragon when I have time to sit down and really watch it. Keep being awesome!

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I'm not particularly here to defend the Inheritance series, but complaining about Saphira sounding more human as time went on is a pretty bad example. It still let you make your point, so it's fine in regards to servicing your video, but the in-story logic acknowledged and explained it from the beginning. I don't think it's a fair example of 'lazy writing'. The Dragons as a race were explicitly portrayed as intelligent and cunning, but without language or other civilization trappings, which is what led to their war with the elves. The elves bonding their races gave Dragons the use of language and tempered them a bit, while giving the then-human-esqe elves magical power and immortality. The story also addresses wild dragons as being particularly vicious and bestial in an intelligent-but-foreign manner, while rider's dragons are tempered both by the bond itself - described as a magnification of the race-wide effects of the original spell - and from the constant exposure. Saphira is perpetually telepathically linked with a person from the moment she's born, and has no other dragons to interact with. Is it really surprising that she would become less bestial and more articulate when her personality and being is melded directly with a human? It would be weird if she didn't become less-alien over time. Overall Paolini did a decent job portraying distinct characteristics of races and issues of cultural clash, as well as fairly logical results of fundamentally mixing the races to share in each other's traits. Great video as always - but there's plenty to criticize in the Inheritance Series. No need to make up criticism where none is really justified. Not exploring "what you wanted to see" isn't the same as it being bad or lazy writing.

One of the things I like about Paarthurnax from Skyrim is specifically about how he speaks. All the dragons can speak, but Paarthurnax has a unique characteristic where he tends to ramble, to indulge in speech. He mixes certain words from the dragon tongue into his speech more often than others, such as Krosis, a sort of apology. He still feels like a dragon despite speaking the player language.

oh wow this video and it's previous instalment have caused me to rethink a whole lot of ideas and aproaches to a book i've been planning! thank you i was kinda stuck

My dragons are manifestations of ambient elements. There is a rainbow/sunlight (I go back and forth) dragon in the skies above a desert, for instance; made of rainbows. Iridescent, serpentine, a breath that can steal or restore sight, as it whims it. I have ideas for dragons of grass, wind, wood/forest, mountain, glass, who knows. Some more serpentine, some more lizardian, mammalian, even entirely alien. It depends on the dragon.

HELL YEAH WINGS OF FIRE

This really helped me. Thank you.

This really helped my writing my dragons, thanks! I hadn't considered that I should add in factors of their culture that only dragons could do, like whether or not they would feel guilt for stealing and so on. Very helpful!

What about those weird dragons in "Disneys American Dragon"? Awesome Video! Could you do this with other fantasy creatures (Werewolves, Fairies, Vampires, ect.)?

Tim, have you read the Deltora Quest series by Emily Rhoda? It is a children's series, but I think there are many world building elements from it which I think might appeal to you, including dragons in the third series

Incredibly insightful, kudos! I am surprised you didn't mention "I am the rider and you are the dragon, so as I say!"

Those were exactly THE "on writing" videos I needed, because I am actually writing a story about a Western Dragon as one of the main characters, so most of the book is written from his perspective and the book is much about the differences in dragon and human cultures, physiology and personalities. And I swear by the work of Tolkien that this is going to be a unique and (hopefully) interesting story. So lots of thanks on this! :)

Friend: how many times did you read the discworld series again? Me: I gave it **NineReeds** haha ... Friend: that is way too many times

In my fantasy works, my dragons are a tad different than the iconic image of one we've seen in a lot of Western fantasy. Yes; they can fly, they're incredibly strong and when provoked, they can be dangerous. BUT...here is where I try to make them different. At least; to a certain degree, I try to. 1. Unlike most dragon icons; which are seen as savage, greedy and lack any form of human level of intelligence. The dragons of Overon (the world of my first fantasy series) possess vast levels of intelligence. They are capable of speaking all manner of tongues and languages, possess great knowledge of the realm and all its races, have shared their language to those whom they've deemed trustworthy. But most of all; through the use of their elemental powers, they helped create the realm of Overon itself. The Earth Dragons shaped the mountains and hills. The Sea Dragons created the oceans, seas, lakes and rivers. The Fire Dragons helped teach the other races how to use their flame to benefit their own lives, the Wind Dragons gave life to the breezes and crosswinds. But most of all, the Light Dragons shared the gift of healing to all who wished to use it for the greater good. On the matter of their elemental powers, while dragons are more commonly known for breathing fire. Other dragons within Overon possess different varieties of mystical abilities. For example, the Sea Dragons' breath creates either a fog-like mist or is capable of entrapping their foes in thick layers of ice. 2. The dragons of Overon are capable of taking on alternative forms (human, elf, dwarf etc.) They take on these forms in order to not feel quite so imposing, when visiting other kingdoms. This was a gift shared by the Light Dragons, the first breed. Through the power of their natural light energy, the dragons can assume whatever form they think of. But it takes a great deal of focus and practice to achieve this. 3. Unlike typical dragons; which desire only to plunder, burn down villages and eat humans. The dragons of Overon took a solemn pledge, to protect those in need and never harm the innocent. Much like the dragons of HTTYD, they have a natural desire to protect those they consider most important to them. Those who've deviated from this pledge (those we've seen in our most iconic of legends) were but younglings who were corrupted by their own pride. 4. While the dragons of Game of Thrones are shown to have only two sets of limbs (two wings and two back legs.) Those that live within Overon have three sets of limbs (wings and four legs.) Furthermore; when underwater, the Sea Dragons' wings take on the form of fins to help them move about. Finally; while not invincible, the dragons of Overon are capable of leading immortal lives. Some of their kind of lived since the very beginning, when the realm first took shape. That is like, several million years; for us humans. So, I hope I'm on the right track with MY dragon characters

Awesome video, thanks for it

A dragon story written from the perspective of the dragons, where the humans are weird creatures, fearful at first, but end up climbing over the dragon and chittering happily, like playful pets.

I won't agree that giving dragons in Spyro human intelligence was ,,lazy writting" because ALL creatures in Spyro no matter how they look were having a human intelligence (maybe beside sheeps and small animals). It would be more stupid to not let dragons talk in Spyro. So what leopard can talk? kangaroo? punguin? yetii? bear? Only faun can talk because half of body looks like human part? That was world with NO HUMANS existing so author could just forget about humans and decide that all bigger animals can act like human in animal body and still sometimes act like animal. That wasn't lazy writting.

I really don't get why Eragon has such a rabid fanbase. There's not much abysmally bad about the series (except how the books handle Eragon's feelings toward Arya despite her having no interest in him at all), but there's also not a lot of good things, either. And it certainly has no deeper meaning or lessons for the readers.

I'll probably never write anything myself but I just love understanding what makes stories good.

While I can agree to an extent with you on the derivative nature of the dragon riders in Paolini's series (as well as the derivative nature of it having the usual elves, dwarves, etc), what keeps me interested in that series is how he uses those basic building blocks to build a fantasy world that, while familiar, has a certain uniqueness to it. My favorite parts of the Inheritance Cycle are honestly when it didn't focus on Eragon and Saphira. When it focused on Roran having to save his village from great danger, rescue his wife and lead armies to victory. When it focused on the political pressures Nasuada faced being the head of the Varden, trying to gather allies and outsmart enemies. When it delved into the history of the races, how they lived, their societal structures, their architecture. Like I mentioned above: familiar, yet unique. The dragon on the cover of Eragon is what drew me to the series, but it's FAR from the reason I stayed :)

Temeraire had the best dragons.

What is your opinion about the Temerair series, on this topic?

Great work keep it up

Great video, Tim! If you are in need of ideas, could you do a video on short stories and the like?